[open-government] Open source tools to find candidates online, gather/share social media data and more

[Steven Clift]

I encourage all the developers out there to watch this project on GitHub:

    https://github.com/mysociety/yournextmp-popit

While this awesome 6 nation proposal -
http://bit.ly/6countriesnewschallenge - is no longer in the running in
the Knight News Challenge, it is the real deal for opening up online
election engagement with candidates around the world ... particularly
in the era of social media engagement. While "ballots" aren't
clickable and the "who is on my ballot" data is often dead-end data
(no or few links to candidate information), the YourNextMP code and
approach can change that.


Steven Clift  -  Executive Director, E-Democracy.org
   clift at e-democracy.org  -  +1.612.234.7072
   @democracy  -  http://linkedin.com/in/netclift

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